nbruce, that last stanza just doesn't quite have it either, but I do take your point about "ALL the 527s, etc." Perhaps one day it will all change. And please, no comments about "when pigs fly" - because I know they do! ;-)

Well, if George Will is correct that "the American people" spend more on toothpaste every year than both the Republican and Democratic campaigns will have spent this year, then it's high time to go back to using salt - preferably sea salt.

Your sense of rhyme and reason
is influenced by your thoughts,
All are biased partisans
In this election season.

"I just wish the 20 million that the NRA is planning on spending. . . "

I've felt that way about ALL the 527s and special rich guys like Soros. Living in Ohio we feel like our media have been hijacked. I wonder how many thousands of dollars per "undecided" voter have been spent--and on people who can't even make up their mind?

Sorry fellows, birdie's poem is better in her use of language and rhythm - and, frankly, I like it better, too. :-)

I just wish the 20 million that the NRA is planning on spending in the next few weeks - two weeks? - could be spent on something more helpful to the good of the country, heck even to the good of any non partisan entity that needs the money more than the gun lobby does to protect that which they're so afraid of losing. The same goes for all the funds spent by both campaigns. Think what good these vast sums could have done.